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Parkland High School graduate Michaela Conlin was already a veteran of two failed TV shows when she trudged down to the 20th Century Fox lot in Century City to shoot a pilot for a police procedural called "Brennan."

Even though the role of forensic artist Angela Montenegro seemed pretty juicy, Conlin knew it was a long shot that the series would get air time, let alone flourish.

"Pilot season in L.A. is just this blood bath," says Conlin. "They make so many pilots and such a small percentage are picked up. And then if you are picked up, there are so many variables. You have to get a good time slot, and you have to get promoted. And then you have to...

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